as small as a world and as large as alone

12:53pm March 23, 2012

linguaphile:

“We seem to have pulled it off again,” she said.

“Yeah.”

He said it almost a little too easily. “You notice,” she said, “that our reward for hard jobs seems to be that we get given even harder jobs? “

Kit thought, then nodded. “Problem is,” he said, “that we like the hard jobs.”

—Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane

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